CHAPTER XI I. 



CONTENTS. 



BAKERY AT NISQUALLY — PROGRESS OF THE SURVEYS — LOSS OF AN EYE-PIECE — 

 FRUITLESS SEARCH FOR IT— SURVEY OF HOOD'S CANAL— CELEBRATION OF FOURTH OF 

 JULY — VISIT FROM DR. M'LAUGHLIN — MOUNT RAINIER AND OTHER SNOWY MOUN- 

 TAINS—EXPEDITION TO THE BUTE PRAIRIES— FARM OF THE COMPANY AT NISQUALLY 

 —SURVEY OF PUGET SOUND— RETURN OF LIEUTENANT JOHNSON'S PARTY— DISADVAN- 

 TAGES OF THE POST AT NISQUALLY— NISQUALLY INDIANS— LIEUTENANT JOHNSON'S 

 OPERATIONS— EQUIPMENT OF HIS PARTY- HIS GUIDE— HIS FIRST CAMP— HIS SECOND 

 CAMP— PUYALLUP RIVER— DIFFICULT PATHS— LARGE ARBOR VIT^ TREES— SMALOCHO 

 RIVER — LOSS OF CAMP EQUIPAGE — GREAT SIZE OF THE SPRUCE TREES— LA TETE 

 MOUNTAIN— LITTLE PRAIRIE— CAMP AT THE EDGE OF THE SNOW— DISTANT VIEW OF 

 MOUNT RAINIER — SUMMIT OF THE RIDGE — ACCIDENT TO THE CHRONOMETER — 

 INDIANS DISMISSED — SMALOCHO RIVER — FIRE IN THE WOODS — YAKIMA TRIBE — 

 INTERVIEW WITH ITS CHIEF— HE EXCHANGES HORSES— ANOTHER VIEW OF MOUNT 

 RAINIER— SPOKANE INDIANS— YAKIMA RIVER— VERY ELEVATED GROUNDS — DESCENT 

 TOWARDS THE COLUMBIA— COLUMBIA RIVER— PISCHOUS RIVER— INDIAN CULTIVATION 

 — VIEW OF THE COLUMBIA — POINT DE BOIS — OKONAGAN INDIANS — HIGH PRAIRIE- 

 MOUNT ST. PIERRE— FORT OKONAGAN— FORT THOMPSON— ARRIVAL OF MR. MAXWELL 

 —FOOD OF THE INDIANS, AND OF THE COMPANY'S SERVANTS— AMUSEMENT OF THE 

 INDIANS — DEPARTURE FROM FORT OKONAGAN — LIEUTENANT JOHNSON LOSES HIS 

 WAY — GRASSY PRAIRIE — GRANDE COULEE — ARTIFICIAL HORIZON BROKEN— LIEUTE- 

 NANT JOHNSON LEAVES THE PARTY — THE PARTY ARRIVES AT FORT COLVILLE — 

 LIEUTENANT JOHNSONS RIDE UP THE SPOKANE - MISSIONARY STATION OF CHIMI- 

 KAINE— CORNEHUS, CHIEF OF THE SPOKANE TRIBE— SINGULAR PROPHECY— LIEUTE- 

 NANT JOHNSON'S ARRIVAL AT FORT COLMLLE. 



